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Phillips Chemical Co. v. Dumas Independent School District, 1959 — 359 U.S. 987 · caselaw · US
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Phillips Chemical Co. v. Dumas Independent School District
359 U.S. 987·Supreme Court of the United States·1959
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Opinion
No. 769.
Phillips Chemical Co. v. Dumas Independent School District.
Clark M. Clifford, Carson M. Glass, Rayburn L. Foster, Harry D. Turner and C. J. Roberts for appellant.
[MAJORITY]
Appeal from the Supreme Court of Texas. Probable jurisdiction noted. The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief setting forth the views of the United States.
James W. Witherspoon and Earnest L. Langley for. appellee. Solicitor General Rankin and Assistant Attorney General Rice for the United States, as amicus ^curiae, in opposition to the motion of appellee to dismiss.